A Serial Rapist

A Serial

Rapist

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First published by AuthorHouse 01/24/2012

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty One

This book dedicated to my wife Hilda, my daughter Nancy, and our fellow residents here at Pinecrest Place whose kind words of encouragement keep me writing.

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Chapter One

THE SEAFORD CHIEF OF POLICE John Daley, called a press conference. He told the newspaper reporters that the infamous ‘Class Reunion Murders’ had been solved and all the suspects in those Seaford, Delaware1984 class reunion murders that were being held in jail had been released.

He reported that the murderer of the two women was proven to have been Horace Hastings and that Horace himself had been killed by Robert Adams of Salisbury, Maryland and that he was now in jail charged with the first degree murder of Horace Hastings.

After the complete story had been released to the reporters, Bill Carle the FBI agent who was in charge of the serial murder investigation of the three murders, placed a call to Helen Hastings, the widow of Horace.

He asked her to have dinner with him that evening because he had been ordered back to the Wilmington office of the FBI early the next day.

Bill and Helen had been very close friends and were very fond of each other over the two years they were both attending the University of Delaware. They had talked of getting married after they graduated, but they were not formally engaged. Bill was transferred for financial reason from the University of Delaware to the University of Tennessee after his family moved from Delaware to Tennessee.

They continued to correspond with each other for several months but Helen eventually started dating Horace Hastings, a Seaford high school classmate.

Helen’s now deceased husband Horace, was a close friend of both Bill and Helen during Bill’s two years at Delaware. Bill had dated Helen over the course of those two years and that led to his friendship with Horace.

About five months after Bill transferred to Tennessee, Helen started dating Horace and they were married in their senior year at the University. Bill never married.

In rather quick succession following and during Helen’s first high school class reunion in June of 1989, three members of the class had been murdered, one of which was her husband Horace.

After the FBI was asked for assistance, by Chief Daley, in fear that a serial murderer was in the area, the FBI approved the request.

Bill now a special agent with the FBI, read the Seaford police report of the case, and after finding the names of his two old college friends Helen and Horace listed in the report, he requested his assignment to the case. It was approved and he arrived in Seaford the next morning.

His attraction to Helen resurfaced over the course of the lengthy investigation of the three murders and their love for each other was slowly renewed.

The first murder victim, Harriet Obrien’s classmate Bob Miller and his wife Kathy Black had planned to marry after their graduation from high school in 1984; but unknown to Bob, Kathy was raped and impregnated by another youth in her senior year.

Kathy quit school and moved from Seaford to Jarrett, Virginia to live with her grandparents without telling Bob the truth as to why she was moving.

A few days after the rape, when Bob called her to go to a movie, she simply told him that she had found another boyfriend and didn’t love him anymore. It was widely reported locally that she had eloped and moved south. Bob was devastated and after graduation left Seaford.

Three years later, after her grandmother died, she and her little son Norman returned to Seaford.

On her return to Seaford she told her friends that she was now divorced from her husband. No one questioned her statement. She found a job as the information clerk at the local library. She did not attend the class reunion because she had not graduated with the class.

It was after Bob’s returned to Seaford to attend the class reunion that he and Kathy eventually got together again and they were soon married. They were now living in Stanton, Delaware where Bob was a partner in a computer web development company.

Bill Carle and Helen had been asked to stand up with Bob and Kathy at their wedding in Seaford and they agreed to do so after they were told that Bill was responsible for getting them back together again after six years.

Bill was, at that time, in charge of the investigation in the class reunion murders.

Bob was, at one time during the investigation, a suspect in those murders because he had been seen in Seaford the day before the reunion and had disappeared after the murders. He did not attend the reunion although he had paid his registration fee to attend.

It was later proven that Bob was actually in Virginia looking for Kathy, because he had been told that she was divorced and no longer married. He had been told that she was living in Jarrett, Virginia after she left Seaford but he was not told that she was now back in Seaford.

Kathy had been living with her grandparents and had actually not married anyone. She didn’t want anyone, especially Bob, to know that she had been raped and was pregnant when she left Seaford.

A few months after she and Bob finally got together they married as they had originally planned six years earlier. Helen’s daughter and Kathy’s son were participants in Bob and Kathy’s wedding.

When the so called Class Reunion Murders cases were officially closed after almost a year of investigation, Bill told Helen over dinner, that he was to appear before a news conference the next morning in Wilmington, Delaware for the purpose of accepting his promotion to the position of Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Branch office in Wilmington, Delaware.

The position of Bureau Chief was one that Bob was hoping for. He was hoping for a position that would allow him more personal and family time.

Helen told him how proud she was that he was to be promoted and added, Does that mean that you will be leaving Seaford soon and have that bureau chief’s job you were looking for?

Yes it does, my work here in Seaford has been completed. I do love you and I am hoping that you and your two children will come to Wilmington with me.

I will now spend most of my time in an office rather than being in the field on an assignment. I will be free to have some family time that I don’t have now. I do hope you will join me in Wilmington. If you wish we can even live in New Castle near your new job at the high school.

Helen had just been told that she had been hired by the New Castle County school board to fill a position working with children with learning disabilities in New Castle, Delaware."

Is that some kind of proposal Bill? Are you asking me to marry you?

Yes, I am Helen, I love you. Will you marry me?

I do love you Bill but I just would have expected you would have asked me on a bended knee. I will marry you; but are you certain that you can handle becoming the father of my two children? Both of them love you as much as I do? That sure will be a big change in your life style. Are you sure you can handle that?

Yes as I have told you before, I love them both. I can’t wait to become a father to them. I am hoping that after we are married, you will agree to have a judge legally change their last names to Carle and to legally let me adopt them, They are both young enough for us to eliminate the constant queries of their having a different last name then ours.

Bill, that’s a wonderful idea. That will be a great help to them in reducing those queries. If it is okay with you, I would like for Bob Miller and Kathy to stand up with us? After all we did stand up with them.

Whoa there Helen, I haven’t given you your ring yet. On a bended knee you ask?

He lowered himself to his right knee and again asked, My dear Helen, the love of my life, the mother of two beautiful children that I want as my own, Wilt thou have this old beau to be your wedded husband?

Laughing, Helen said, I will. Bill handed her the box holding the ring.

Bill, I didn’t think that a stiff old FBI agent like you could be that funny?

Stiff huh? You haven’t seen how stiff I can be yet; but you will find that out as soon as we are married.

Oh wow! What do you think about what I said about Bob and Kathy and the children?

That’s a great idea Helen, and our children and Kathy’s son can repeat their roles for us in our wedding just as they did in Bob and Kathy’s wedding.

I’m so excited, I know that Nancy will be as excited as I am and as she was, when asked to be in Bob and Kathy’s wedding. We can surely find a part for Doug to perform something in our wedding. Remember how he felt when he was the only child not in Kathy’s wedding? Perhaps he can help spread the flowers or even give me away to you. Yes, that’s it I’ll let him give me away

Three weeks later Bill and Helen were married at the Pike Creek Valley Country Club and after the reception, they dropped off the children Nancy and Doug to stay with the Millers. The three children were very happy to see each other again.

Bill and Helen then left on a flight to Aruba for a two week honeymoon.

After arriving in Aruba and checking in at their hotel and after a great seafood dinner, they spent the evening in their room overlooking the ocean.

Bill it’s been a long time since I was last with Horace.

Not as long as I have waited for you I’ve been waiting since college days remember.

Bill, do you agree with the prosecuting attorney’s report that Jeanne and Harriet were truly murdered by Horace?

Yes I do Helen, all the evidence certainly points to Horace having done it. If you will remember a piece of wire and blood stains on his gloves were found in Horace’s old pickup truck. That with Steve Cockran’s testimony about the red convertible found in Laurel after Harriet’s death was pretty conclusive. The DNA also indicated that Horace had sex with both women before they were killed. Why do you ask? I thought that you too had suspected Horace at the time.

Yes Bill, I did suspect Horace at the time; but I still just cannot convince myself that Horace could have done such a thing. I do know for certain that he was doing all those other things he was reported having done, like his sleeping with them; but I just can’t conceive him murdering anyone. Why did he rape them if they were having sex with him?

I still feel that there is some reasonable doubt on the murders. Horace rarely used that truck, and maybe the wire and gloves were placed in the truck by someone else to give the appearance that Horace did it. I never knew Horace to wear gloves.

Horace was a good father and his love for our two children was actually the root cause of our troubles in the divorce proceedings. I am certain, that with time, we could have worked out a divorce arrangement. A lot of the prosecuting people thought money was his motive for their murders. In my opinion that was not the motive.

Horace and his lawyers never offered or mentioned to me any kind of money arrangement, other than their suggestion that most of any monetary award should be placed in trust for the children. Horace had asked for that and I had agreed.

Our real differences were over our other assets, the poultry business, the rental properties, and the farm properties. After all, it was my parent’s loan and gift that got us started in the business. I was more concerned with the problem of his wanting custody of the children then I was on the money matters. I didn’t want them exposed to his ‘way of life’ all his whoring around and drinking. That is all we were really fighting about.

After all, I did give most all of our assets back to his family didn’t I? I just can’t get the thought of his being a murderer out of my mind.

I truly feel he just couldn’t have murdered those women. I think that there was more to the case then that. If it was for money, I think that at least he would have made some kind of offer in that area. He never did.

"Yes, I understand your feeling Helen; but I guess we will never know for certain whether he did or did not because the state prosecutor accepted the information that had been collected; and